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From
1853
Annual Report, American Historical Association, 1911 In two vols.
Vol. II, p. 331.] John L. Ketcham to Howell Cobb.
Indianapolis [Indiana], August 9,
Dear Sir: One Pleasant Ellington, formerly of Ken¬ tucky, but now of Missouri, on the 21 June made his af- fidavlt before the U. S. Comr"v, under the Fugitive Slave l^w, claiming a colored man of this piace by the name of John Freeman, alledging th^t he escaped from him in March 1836. Freeman has lived in this place since Aug¬ ust 1844, has alway demeaned himself with propriety, • was sexton to one of the Presbyterian Churches for three or four years, very industrious and economical, known by all our older citizens, and has acquired a )$£#|{f#| handsome property worth say |4,000. In the meantime he married a very smart yellow girl and they now have three or four children.
Freeman upon his arrest told his counsel that he knew nothing of Mr. Ellington and that he was a fi*ee man; that he was born and raised in Virginia and in 1831 went . into Walton Coxmty, Georgia, and resided at Monroe, Geor¬ gia from that time until he left in 1844. He also placed. in our hands a mass of papers principally showing busi¬ ness transactions; but amongst them was an old letter dated 15 March 1831 from L. B. Jennings directed to

V
^ d
. i^'mi^js,*' x.^^iji
From
1853
Annual Report, American Historical Association, 1911 In two vols.
Vol. II, p. 331.] John L. Ketcham to Howell Cobb.
Indianapolis [Indiana], August 9,
Dear Sir: One Pleasant Ellington, formerly of Ken¬ tucky, but now of Missouri, on the 21 June made his af- fidavlt before the U. S. Comr"v, under the Fugitive Slave l^w, claiming a colored man of this piace by the name of John Freeman, alledging th^t he escaped from him in March 1836. Freeman has lived in this place since Aug¬ ust 1844, has alway demeaned himself with propriety, • was sexton to one of the Presbyterian Churches for three or four years, very industrious and economical, known by all our older citizens, and has acquired a )$£#|{f#| handsome property worth say |4,000. In the meantime he married a very smart yellow girl and they now have three or four children.
Freeman upon his arrest told his counsel that he knew nothing of Mr. Ellington and that he was a fi*ee man; that he was born and raised in Virginia and in 1831 went . into Walton Coxmty, Georgia, and resided at Monroe, Geor¬ gia from that time until he left in 1844. He also placed. in our hands a mass of papers principally showing busi¬ ness transactions; but amongst them was an old letter dated 15 March 1831 from L. B. Jennings directed to